FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1965
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
PAGE SEVEN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN
Povert
WASHINGTON (M)-President
Johnson's antipoverty program is
in deep trouble with some of its
best friends in Congress.
Leading Democrats on the House
Education and Labor Committee,
at a heated meeting with pro-,
gram director Sargent Shriver,
have told him they don't like the
way things are going.
And they are seeking an ap-
pointment with Johnson to urge
that Shriver, who also heads the
Peace Corps, be replaced in one
of his jobs so the poverty program
will have a full-time director.
Scrutiny Program
And the committee is launching
its own nationwide scrutiny of
the program.
Criticism of the program and
demands that Shriver give up one
of his jobs Are nothing new on
Capitol Hill, but up to now it has
been only Republicans who .have
been heard from.
Now it is a group of Demo-
crats who just recently pushed
through the House a bill doubling
the money available for what
Johnson calls a "war on poverty"
and beat back Republican amend-
ments to cut down Shriver.
"Knockdown Affair'
The meeting with Shriver, held
secretly late Monday in the com-
mittee's office, was described by,
one member as "a knockdown,
drag-out affair." It ended amic-
ably, however, with a round of
drinks in the office of Chairman
Adam .Clayton Powell (D-NY).
Although there is unhappiness
among the Democrats with many,
phases of the antipoverty programi
the major complaint is over the
way Shriver is administering the
community action program, which
War Criticism Escalates
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puts money in the hands of local
groups to carry out plans of their
own design.
It was the intention of Congress,
the Democrats insist, that such
plans could be purely of a neigh-
borhood character, worked out
and run by the people living there.
But Shriver, they say, has chosen
to work, primarily with organiza-
tions set up to represent an entire
city, which means they are dom-
inated 'by the city's public offi-
cials.
Own Fault
"It's our own fault," Powell said
Thursday. "We left it to the dis-
cretion of the director to deter-
'mine the criteria for eligible or-
ganizations instead of writing it
into the bill. We'll take care of
that next year."
Powell's comment provides an-
other ironic, twist, "for it was the
Republicans on the committee who
tried to get guidelines written into
the bill when the program was
established last year.
Powell is following up Monday's
meeting by appointing a special
investigating 'staff to fan out over
the country and inspect com-
munity action prbjects. The House
has authorized $100,000 for the
investigation and Powell has al-
ready started hiring people.
Asking Complaints
He said he is also sending let-
ters to every member of the House
asking them to send along any
complaints they may have re-
ceived about the operation of the
program in their districts.
Investigating teams will leave
Washington and start looking into
the complaints ,after Labor Day,
he said.
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Romney, Legislature Slow in
Pushing Tax Reform Measures
(Continued from Page 3)
necessary; state revenues have in-
creased more than enough to wipe.
out a deficit that stood at $86.5
million in 1962. But on the other
hand, state services are taking an
increasingly large bite out of state
revenues to the point where it
has been predicted that Michigan
will be operating in the red agaifi
within a year or two.
Romney, recognizing this fact,
first broached tax reform to the
Legislature in 1963. On the sur-
face, it seemed to many to be
an ideal move. Coming from the
Constitutional Convention and the
first. Republican gubenatorial vic-
tory in 14 years, Romney was in a
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Legislature. In addition to all this,
Democrats had been calling for
fiscal reform for years, so their
backing seemed assured.
But notwithstanding all this, it
didn't take long for the bottom to
fall out of the special session on
tax reform called for September,
1963.;
The first potential reform back-
ers to leave the Romney camp
were the state's professional edu-,
cators; disappointed because the
governor failed to give them the
money they felt they needed, they
refused to back 'him. The old folks
lobby was alienated by a require-
ment which would have only given
state tax relief to only elder citi-
zens who could show evidence of
extreme poverty.
Climate Not Right
Butmost of all, the climate
was just not right. The reason
Michigan's tax structure is such
a patchwork is that its provisions
have almost all been created as
stop-gap measures to stave off
financial crisis after financial
crisis. Michigan legislatures have
simply refused to act unless ca-
tastrophe has been around the
corner.
And of course in 1963, the state
appeared far from fiscal catas-
trophe. The deficit was all but
gone and revenues kept on climb-
ing. There was no crisis so there
was no major impetus for bi-
partisan tax reform.
Defeat in 1963, combined with
the fact that 1964 was an elec-
tion year, madeRomney decide
not to attempt tax reform again,
but rather to "clean up" the state
with such action as increasing
care for the mentally ill and im-
proving financial situations at
schools and colleges.
After 1964 came this year's in-
conclusive session, leaving the
coming September special session
as the last hope for reform this
year.
Determined Fight
Despite gloomy Democratic pre-
dictions, Romney appears to be
preparing for a determined fight.
Earlier this month Romney spent
some- time with top legislative
leaders of both parties in an at-
tempt to marshall assistance for
this second attempt at reform.
If this try fails, as it:appears
it may, it will be further testi-
mony to the permanent features
of the Michigan tax reform pic-
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